Foreman 2.5.1 release process

[ekohl]

We appear to have broken cronjobs:

Katello 4.1 foreman crontab

It seems with katello 4.1 /etc/cron.d/foreman has been modified to include a timestamp, e.g. */30 * * * * foreman /usr/sbin/foreman-rake ldap:refresh_usergroups | gawk '{ print strftime("[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]"), $0 }' >>/var/log/foreman/cron.log 2>&1 instead of /usr/sbin/foreman-rake ldap:refresh_usergroups >>/var/log/foreman/cron.log 2>&1 before. The problem is that a pipeline separates commands where each has its own file descriptors, thus the redirect at the end only applies to the g…

We should fix this as part of 2.5.1. Given that it’s in packaging means we can fix it even after projects have been tagged.